CIDADE PLANEJADA SIGNIFICA CIDADE SEGREGADA?

GEOGRAFIA RADICAL NEGRA COMPARADA EM BELO HORIZONTE E CHICAGO

Abstract

This article offers a comparative analysis of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Chicago (USA), two cities planned at the turn of the twentieth century. Engaging in dialogue between Katherine McKittrick’s work on the Black sense of place and Beatriz Nascimento’s conceptualization of the quilombo as a social and spatial structure of Black resistance, the study examines how modernist urban planning practices fostered projects of racial segregation in contexts that are distinct yet structurally connected through hegemonic practices. The analysis unfolds through three interconnected narratives: first, an examination of the ideals of progress embedded in the planning of these cities; second, an exploration of how such projects reinforced dynamics of dispossession and subordination of Black populations; and third, a discussion of forms of Black resistance through aquilombamento processes, which enable understandings of a Black sense of place beyond the frame of violence.